If you haven’t heard, your favourite Korean beauty website; ALTHEA turns one today! Ever since
the website started one year ago, the much beloved website have been our gateway
to the unlimited types of Korean beauty products we can get. Be it those much
raved products in Korea to various different types from skincare to hair &
body as well. So, thank you ALTHEA for enabling us to have our hands on these amazing
Korean goodies. The best part is ALTHEA is celebrating its first anniversary by having various
promotions and a customised pink box, the birthday edition to mark its first
year!

ALTHEA’s
birthday celebration is a week-long one starting today, the 20th till
31st July 2016. During this period, you will received a Limited
Edition Birthday Box with a DIY Party Kit (just as pictured
above, the party hat was made from the kit) for all orders placed! What’s even
better is that there will be free goodies for the first 1,500
shoppers (the goodies are full-sized products!). There is also a
birthday giveaway, where you pick 3 top sellers items
and you’ll be entitled to a 100% rebate in terms of ALTHEA’s store credit for your
next purchases. So, if you’re still reading this now, you had better go to ALTHEA and start your buying
spree!

Besides that, there is an Instagram contest
on-going which begins today and ends on 15th August 2016. You can join the
contest after you have received your party kit and wish ALTHEAHappy Birthday
with the hashtag #altheaturns1 and stand a chance to
win amazing prizes such as Macbook Air, Ipad Air 2, iPhone 6S, Galaxy S6 Edge,
Canon EOS M10 Selfie Camera, Althea credits and beauty hampers from Althea! The
prizes are worth a total of KRW10,000,000 to be won. So hurry, shop and Instagram it
now!

I'll be posting another post on my hauls and hopefully reviewing the products as well. So do look out for that post! Meanwhile, hop on over to ALTHEA and begin your shopping spree!

It’s been a rather eventful day for me today, kicking off the
much-awaited weekend with The Star
Closet - Celebs & Bloggers Bazaar organised by ClosetStyles. But this
was not before a series of ‘minor’ accidents (injured my feet while preparing
for the bazaar)… In the end, I arrived about 30 minutes after the bazaar
started. The venue was located in the Tropicana City Mall, at the new extension
area which is a spacious area for a bazaar to be held.

Despite arriving late, I managed to prepare my booth in a jiffy
because everything was already provided and set up for us! There was racks
filled with clothes hangers too ready for us. Unfortunately, I had
an ‘enthusiastic’ vendor next to me who used the hangers from my rack for her
clothes…. +___+”. Oh wells, lucky thing I brought my own ones too.

My booth is located within a dedicated air-conditioned space,
which was very comfortable to be located at. It wasn’t hot at all, it even went
to a freezing cold too because it rained during late afternoon. The crowd today
was little bit more mellow, probably dampen by the rain too. But hey, tomorrow
is a Sunday and the bazaar is still on-going for the last day!

Do come and say hi to me at the bazaar! Bring your friends and family over too, as you’ll be able to meet the rest of the bloggers and celebrities too! Thank you to my friends and loved one, for coming today and helping me out. I really appreciate it, from the bottom of my heart! Thank to my fellow bloggers for dropping by too; Cindy, Cookies! and Kelvin too. Another shout out to my other friends who tried to come but couldn’t make it in time, cause of rain and jam :(

Ending this post with a picture of my other booth neighbour, the gorgeous babe from http://www.arisachow.com/. Loved her unicorn pastel hair, much envy! By the end of the day, I was simply exhausted surviving on only 4 hours of sleep. It shows from the picture too, right? Hope to see you, lovelies later at the bazaar. Details as per the poster at the top!

The month of May and June have always been special days for all
mothers and fathers alike as we celebrate our love for our mothers and fathers.
This year, I’ve been blessed to be able to spend more time with both my parents
on those respective days. But to make things sweeter, I entered a contest
organised by KetchUp a few months back, to be in the running to dine at one
of the restaurants partnered up with KetchUp. One of the restaurants is Nara Kitchen
& Co, which I fell in love with since I stepped into the place when they
first opened!

As it turned out, I won the contest (yay!) and the team KetchUp have selected Nara Kitchen
& Co for me to dine in with my parents! I was pretty chuffed that we’ll
be dining at such a lovely place with really gooooooood yummy food, and I have
my parents to share the dining experience with. Of course, on top of it, I get
to spend time with my food bloggers parents. If you haven’t checked out their
blog yet, you should do so now. My mom blogs at FollowMeToEatLa and
dad blogs at BestRestaurantToEat, show them some love!

It was indeed an amazing dining experience at Nara Kitchen
& Co, the food was healthy and wholesome (just as how I remember it when
I first visited). This time around Caroline, the owner of Nara Kitchen
& Co was there too, and she recommended a few of her delicious,
favourite food to us too! But really, it wasn’t just the food that made the
experience a memorable one but kudos to KetchUp’s team for planning a surprise during the lunch! I
managed to surprise my parents with flowers and chocolates. Even Daddy got a
bouquet of flowers and chocolates too!

If you’re curious on the food we had, I took some lovely pictures of the food
served to us. Most of them were recommended by Ms Caroline of Nara Kitchen
& Co, so you can be sure that they are delicious and probably is one of
the best sellers of the restaurant.

Big Belly | RM 26.00

Daddy was deceived by the word belly in the dish and was
expecting pork belly salad. Instead, this gorgeous mix of white organic
quinoa, fresh mint, roasted beets, orange wedges, kyuri (a Japanese
cucumber) paired with homemade hummus and then topped with
miso vinaigrette.

Brilliant Breakfast Pudding | RM
17.00

When this arrived, the inner child in me was going “This is
such a cute food, I just want to dig right in to it!”. I managed to get a
quick photograph of it before I tried this cutesy food. It’s actually a rice
pudding made with fresh vanilla milk, then topped with poached
apricots, toasted almonds, fresh mangos, red orange zest and
edible flowers!

Soup of The Day | RM 18.00

This was the Soup of The Day, which is
actually a creamy broccoli soup with a truffle and cream drizzle.
There is a little added surprise in the soup too because there were slices
of sausages in our soup too! The soup of the day changes everyday, so do ask on
the daily specials before you place your order. If it happens to be broccoli,
you should give it a try because I love it to bits. I think this is something
everyone should try at least once. It’s unique to have it cooked the creamy soup
style.

Nara Donburi | RM 36.00

THIS, right here… is why I fell in love with
Nara
Kitchen & Co. The egg in the Nara Donburi is the 63
degrees egg cooked to perfection and topped with ikura (salmon’s
roe), served with torched salmon, miso zucchini with truffle mayo
shredded seaweed on top of sticky Japanese rice. The rice has an
accompanying sauce, which can be quite overwhelming when there is too much of
it. So be sure, to let the waiter know you’ll prefer less sauce. You can always
ask for more sauce to add on if it’s insufficient.

Pink Lobster Salmon Pasta | RM
61.00

I remember coming across a picture of this on Nara Kitchen
& Co’s Instagram page (@NaraWithLove) and told myself that I have to give this a try
one day! This is pasta is served with grilled lobster meat alongside
with salmon chunks cooked in creamy tomato sauce topped
with sundried tomato, parmesan and cilantro. The lobster is
oh-la-la fresh, and juicy to chew one. Just can’t get enough of it. The
portion of the mains are quite huge as you can see above, so best to share with
friends! Not to mention, that they are really very generous with their
servings!

Seared Duck with Squid Ink Pasta | RM
49.00

When I first saw the name of dish on the menu, I actually
thought it was a squid ink sauce paste. However, it arrived in a creamy
primavera sauce and then I realised that in the description, it is stated
that it’s a cream sauce pasta! It’s just that the pasta used is the squid ink
linguine. So the pasta is served with seared duck breast in five spices,
shimeji mushrooms, cherry tomato and topped with alfalfa sprouts. This dish
is quite creamy on its own, so if you were to order, just one cream sauce based
for the main dish would be sufficient.

If you realise we actually had two main cream based dishes and
that actually left us feeling slightly bloated. We were so so stuffed after all
the dishes above, so we didn’t have desserts!

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All in all, it is such an amazing experience dining at Nara Kitchen
& Co and to be back there again, with my parents. Completely honest, I’m
guilty for not spending enough time with my parents especially with the demands
of my work and trying to balance my social life too. So, it’s really great to
bond over good wholesome, comfort food at Nara Kitchen
& Co. A huge thank you once again to KetchUp’s team and Ms Caroline, Nara Kitchen
& Co!